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Cheery, Peach, Apricot and Plum Sherbets

A sherbet made from cherry, peach, apricot, and plum cooked with water, strained, and frozen with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheery, Peach, Apricot and Plum Sherbets

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fruit base

  1. Cook the fruits in a small amount of water until tender.

  2. Squeeze the cooked fruits through cheesecloth to extract the juice.

Freeze and finish

  1. Prepare the sherbet as you would for strawberry sherbet.

  2. After freezing, fold in 1 cup of whipped cream, stirring gently to combine.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Apricot + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apricot + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Whipped cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture to the frozen sherbet.
Cheery
Provides the main fruit flavor and juice for the sherbet base.
Peach
Provides the main fruit flavor and juice for the sherbet base.
Apricot
Provides the main fruit flavor and juice for the sherbet base.
Plum
Provides the main fruit flavor and juice for the sherbet base.

The step that matters

After freezing, fold in 1 cup of whipped cream. Folding gently keeps air in the whipped cream, so the sherbet stays light. Stirring hard or letting it soften too much can deflate it and make the texture dense and icy.

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, apricot, cream):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Plumthe original
  4. Strawberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, apricot, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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